Tom, et al.:
I'm not sure there will ever be a definitive answer to this, or that, even
if we could clean up our own usage (sure, right), we'd be able to control
what other people say.
I think we're stuck with the fairly general definition of what "Dublin
Core" is--the 15 elements plus everything we've tacked on since.
Diane
At 12:47 PM 6/12/2001 +0200, you wrote:
>On further reflection: my opposition to stamping "Dublin Core" on lots
>of things besides the original Element Set dates back to a time when
>there was talk about branching out into different types of metadata
>besides simple resource discovery. This hasn't happened, so perhaps we
>_should_ use "Dublin Core" more generally than for "the Dublin Core"
>per se -- ie, for a small vocabulary for cross-domain resource
>discovery following particular principles.
>
>I hate to keep posting on this old issue, but we should at least have
>an answer to "What is the Dublin Core?"
>
>What do others think?
>
>Tom
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